HIV
THIS past Tuesday esteemed African-American HIV/Aids activist Hydeia Broadbent passed away at the age of 39. She is distinguished as having inspired legendary basketball superstar Magic Johnson to become an HIV/Aids activist.
Broadbent achieved world-wide recognition in the early 1990s as a young girl who was presumed to be born with HIV and diagnosed with Aids at the age of three.
Her adoptive parents were informed that she would not live past the age of five, but she went on to devote her entire life to HIV and Aids advocacy, awareness and education for decades.
Considered a pioneer, Broadbent was one of the first African-American youth to speak out about the HIV and Aids epidemic.
She garnered international media attention in the late 1980s
